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Former acting CPP General Secretary, James Kwabena Bomfeh has implored the former Chairman of the ertswhile Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Frimpong-Boateng to cease fire in his back and forth rebuttals with government after accusing some officials of engaging in illegal mining.

According to a report by Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, there are some officials at the Jubilee House and in government who are deeply involved in the illegal mining rot.

“Throughout our struggle with illegalities in the small-scale mining sector, what baffled me was the total disregard of the President’s commitment to protect the environment. I can state without any equivocation that many party officials from the National to the unit committee level had their friends, PAs, agents, relatives, financiers or relatives engaged in illegal mining.

“Most of them engaged Chinese working for them. I am not referring to party people who had their legitimate concession and were mining sustainably as they were instructed to do. There are appointees in the Jubilee House that are doing or supporting illegal mining or interfering with the fight against the menace,” parts of the report read.

Following the allegations, the accused persons, particularly the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, have vehemently refuted the claims.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, in his response, stated; "Over the years, I had nothing but great admiration for Prof Boateng’s public spirited works and as an inspirational citizen. I feel gravely offended over the false claims he has made and the hurtful conclusions he has sought to exact about me precisely because of the great esteem in which I have held him. I trust that in the coming months and years he will reflect deeply upon his own actions and comments which have led to his challenges. He should kindly leave me out of his personal fights. I am utterly disappointed but I forgive him."

Tackling the matter, Kabilla counseled Prof. Frimpong-Boateng to stop making further statements.

"He has spoken and written things. It is okay; I implore him not to talk again," he briefly submitted during a panel discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme.